assize

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Divorce proceedings were fixed for 27 October 1936 at Ipswich assize court.

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2019

Last week an assize court jury in Kingston took only ten minutes to find Johnson not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter.

From Time Magazine Archive

If ignorance would look upon its own degradation, let it spend a few hours in an assize court.

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob

Most houses possessed the right to hold the assize of bread and ale and to fine alewives who overcharged or gave short measure.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

The result of the whole assize has been that out of the 2,316 stanzas 1,437 have been honorably acquitted; the rest have been italicised, bracketed, or both....

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown